Russia must withdraw from South Ossetia and Abkhazia
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said that Russia should return control to Georgia in the territories of self-proclaimed Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which came under de facto control of Russia in 2008. In her opinion, Russia is reproducing the war in Ukraine, and after it ends, it must leave not only the occupied Ukrainian territories, but also the Georgian ones.
Zurabishvili’s words quotes Bloomberg: “Russia is already practically touching all borders, if not completely at war.
President of Georgia pay the Western community from Russian President Vladimir Putin exports troops from the internationally recognized territory of the country as one of the conditions of the world community with Ukraine. Otherwise, she believes, the West will make a big mistake, as in 2008 and 2014.”
- South Ossetia and Abkhazia were part of the Georgian SSR. In the 1990s, both territories declared independence, which Georgia did not recognize. In 2008, after the “five-day war” with Georgia, Russia determined its troops on the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed republics, but with some cases of four UN member states – Venezuela, Nauru, Nicaragua and Syria. Georgia considers these territories to be its own, occupied by Russia.
- Georgia and Russia do not have interrelations. Under this arbitrary government, Georgia has abandoned the sanctions measures taken by Western countries against Moscow after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and, although officially and unexpectedly in Ukraine, are quite restrained in their rhetoric and actions. The Georgian opposition accuses the country’s authorities of being pro-Russian.